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[Illustration: "He finally found himself slugged under the ear and sent flying over a chair."]
I--Trouble Brewing II--Challenged and Hazed III--The Blow IV--The Fight V--The Finish VI--A Fresh Council VII--A Surprise VIII--The "Roast" at East Rock IX--The Duel X--At Morey's XI--"Lambda Chi!" XII--Freshman Against Sophomore XIII--Jubilant Freshmen XIV--The Rush XV--On the Ball Field XVI--To Break an Enemy's Wrist XVII--Talking it Over XVIII--Merriwell and Rattleton XIX--Who is the Traitor? XX--A Hot Chase XXI--Roast Turkey XXII--A Surprise for Frank XXIII--The Yale Spirit XXIV--Gordon Expresses Himself XXV--The Traitor Discovered XXVI--The Race XXVII--A Change of Pitchers XXVIII--The Game Grows Hotter XXIX--The End of the Game XXX--Rattleton is Excited XXXI--What Ditson Wanted XXXII--Ditson is Trapped XXXIII--"Play Ball" XXXIV--A Hot Finish
"Here's to good old Yale--drink it down! Here's to good old Yale--drink it down! Here's to good old Yale, She's so hearty and so hale-- Drink it down! Drink it down! down! down!"
From the open window of his rooms on York Street Frank Merriwell heard the distant chorus of a rollicking band of students who had been having a merry evening in town.
Frank had passed his examinations successfully and had been admitted as a student at Yale. In order to accomplish this without taking a preparatory course at Phillips Academy, he had found it necessary to vigorously "brush up" the knowledge he had acquired at the Fardale Military Academy which was a college preparatory school.
Professor Scotch, Frank's guardian, had been of great assistance to him, for the professor knew just about what would be required at the entrance examination, and he had kept the boy digging away away at the propositions in the First Book of Euclid, had drilled him in Caesar, caused him to spend weary hours over Virgil and the Iliad, and made him not a little weary of his Xenophon.
As he passed without a condition, although he had been told again and again that a course at Phillips Academy was almost an absolute necessity, Frank was decidedly grateful to the professor.
Professor Scotch's anxiety had brought him to New Haven, where he remained "till the agony was over," as Frank expressed it. The little man bubbled over with delight when he found his _protégé_ had gone through without a struggle.
